Xiaohua

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Aya chose Xiaohua while studying at her sect, with the sect leader’s permission. She describes Xiaohua as the only living thing she took with her when she left, although she also explicitly identifies the cat as a weapon. Xiaohua’s gray-and-white tabby appearance was a cosmetic skin purchased by a player 1 4 5.

Xiaohua accompanied Aya into the unfamiliar world and helped her survive in the wilderness by gathering fruit, hunting rabbits, and carrying her through the forest. At night, Aya slept against Xiaohua’s enlarged body for reassurance while worrying that her player had abandoned her 1.

After Aya settled in Diagon Alley, Xiaohua remained almost inseparable from her and accompanied her to Hogwarts. Dumbledore noticed the absence of a soul and initially wondered whether the cat was an alchemical creation 3 4 14.

Appearance

Xiaohua resembles a fluffy gray-and-white tabby cat, with a size that changes dramatically according to Aya’s needs 1.

• Small form: Approximately the length of Aya’s arm; small enough to be carried, sit on her lap, or cling to her shoulder 1 6 8.
• Enlarged form: Much taller than Aya and capable of filling a Hogwarts Express compartment 1 6.
• Natural weapons: Hooked claws and serrated teeth capable of tearing through doors, masonry, and stone carvings 14 35 36.

Behavior

Despite bright eyes and lifelike feline movements, Xiaohua lacks consciousness, independent thought, and a soul. Aya understands the cat’s actions as responses to commands rather than expressions of a separate personality; Dumbledore independently recognizes the absence of awareness 1 4 35.

Xiaohua nevertheless purrs, grooms, flicks its tail, and tolerates handling without resisting. Duoduo bathes and brushes the cat, while students frequently pet it. These ordinary feline behaviors help Xiaohua pass as a pet despite Aya’s insistence that it is her most important weapon 4 5 17.

Abilities & Skills

Size Manipulation

Xiaohua can switch between a portable cat form and an enormous combat form 1 2.

• Enlarges to carry Aya, lift Harry’s luggage, restrain opponents, or block passage 6 9 30 34.
• Shrinks to perch on Aya’s shoulder or hide behind cover 8 36.
• Can enlarge during a leap, using the sudden increase in size to knock people aside or pin them down 30.

Physical Combat and Durability

Xiaohua supplies much of Aya’s close-range fighting power through rapid claw strikes, strength, and resilience 14 30.

• Overwhelms the three-headed dog guarding the Philosopher’s Stone in roughly half a minute 14.
• Destroys giant Wizard’s Chess pieces and breaks through doors instead of solving their intended challenges 14.
• Defeats a resistant Troll through accumulated wounds while Aya restores health and energy 14.
• Fights car-sized Acromantulas with paw strikes fast enough to leave afterimages 44.
• Feels no pain, but still loses health and can suffer poison or other debuffs 14 35 44.
• Does not break Snape’s Shield Charm during their first encounter 2.

Crowd Control

Xiaohua can disable or distract targets through summoner combat skills 13 36.

• Meow attack: Knocks a merperson unconscious before pinning it with a paw 13.
• Taunt: Draws the Basilisk’s attention away from Aya and reduces damage taken by the summoned beast while active 36.
• Limit: Taunt does not make Xiaohua invulnerable; the Basilisk still inflicts substantial damage, requiring Aya to heal continuously 36.

Position-Swapping and Status Transfer

Xiaohua serves as the other endpoint for Aya’s position-swapping magic 10 11.

• Enables Aya to escape restraints, reposition during combat, and cross obstacles after Xiaohua reaches the other side 10 14.
• Works inside Hogwarts despite the castle’s Anti-Apparition protections 11.
• Can receive a control debuff transferred from Aya during a swap. The diary’s influence subsequently directs Xiaohua toward the Chamber of Secrets entrance 35.
• Can be recalled after Aya swaps out of danger 14.

Lotus Rebirth

Lotus Rebirth resurrects Aya by sacrificing Xiaohua. It is described as the only summoner resurrection skill usable on oneself 36.

• Xiaohua dissolves into specks of light when the skill activates 36.
• Aya can subsequently restore Xiaohua with Glistening Tears 36.
• The demonstrated resurrection sequence saves Aya after the Basilisk kills her upon appearing 36.

Tracking, Transport, and Retrieval

Xiaohua can follow routes, locate targets, and retrieve objects on command 1 7 35.

• Hunts rabbits, gathers fruit, swims, and catches fish 1 2 13.
• Finds Neville’s missing toad aboard the Hogwarts Express 7.
• Navigates Hogwarts and carries Aya down moving staircases by leaping between flights 9 35.
• Catches Neville after he falls from his broom, leaving him uninjured 12.
• Retrieves flying keys and removes emeralds from stone snake carvings 14 36.
• Tears through walls and fixtures to reach inaccessible areas, although sufficiently thick doors can require digging around them 35 36.

Story Role / Major Arcs

First Year at Hogwarts

• Xiaohua’s stairwell shortcuts and luggage handling make the cat a school-wide curiosity. Students gather to watch the enlarged form, and Aya later accepts snacks from people who want to pet it 10 17.
• During the Philosopher’s Stone dungeon expedition, Xiaohua handles most physical obstacles, fights the guardian creatures, and tests the seven potions. Aya heals the damage and removes the resulting debuffs 14.
• At Halloween, Aya summons Xiaohua to defeat the Troll threatening Hermione 16.
• Harry and Ron borrow Xiaohua to protect themselves while feeding Norbert, then take the cat along when moving the dragon under the Invisibility Cloak 25.
• Xiaohua knocks Quirrell down during Aya’s ambush, dislodging his turban and exposing Voldemort’s face 26.

Summer and Return to School

• At the Dursley home, Xiaohua knocks Petunia and Dudley aside, locates Harry’s locked room, and forces the door open 28.
• During the bookshop fight between Arthur Weasley and Malfoy Senior, Xiaohua enlarges between them and pins Malfoy Senior beneath its body 30.
• At Quidditch practice, Xiaohua restrains Draco while Aya rides his Nimbus 2001; the enormous cat subsequently separates the Gryffindor and Slytherin teams 34.

Chamber of Secrets

• After receiving the diary’s control effect from Aya, Xiaohua leads her to the bathroom containing the Chamber entrance. Its attempt to activate the tap fails, so Aya instead orders it to dismantle the surrounding fixtures and walls 35.
• Inside the Chamber, Xiaohua damages the statue, survives long enough to resurrect Aya, and then occupies the Basilisk with Taunt. The encounter ends when Hagrid’s rooster crows and the system declares the dungeon complete 36.
• When Dumbledore takes the diary, Xiaohua attacks him while Aya uses offensive magic and position swaps to demand its return 43.

Forbidden Forest Expedition

• Following the confrontation with Dumbledore, Hermione temporarily restricts Xiaohua’s movements by carrying the cat in her schoolbag 44.
• Aya later sneaks Xiaohua into the Forbidden Forest. With Aya healing and dispelling poison from a tree, Xiaohua fights a swarm of Acromantulas, yielding more than thirty corpses 44.

Relationships

• Aya Hawthorne — Summoner and constant companion. Aya depends on Xiaohua for combat, transport, survival, and resurrection, while also sleeping beside the cat for comfort 1 5 26 36.
• Duoduo — Caretaker who bathes and grooms Xiaohua; she is strongly tempted to cuddle beside the enlarged cat and Aya 5.
• Fred and George Weasley — Enthusiastic admirers who hire Xiaohua with sweets and use the cat as protection on trips to the Forbidden Forest 17 30.
• Harry Potter and Ron Weasley — Borrow Xiaohua to keep Norbert under control and take the cat along when moving him 25.
• Hermione Granger — Tries to curb Aya’s misconduct by restricting Xiaohua as well, carrying the cat in a schoolbag weighing over twenty jin 44.
• Albus Dumbledore — Investigates Xiaohua’s unusual nature and faces the cat in Aya’s disputes over the Philosopher’s Stone and diary 4 14 43.

Trivia

• Xiaohua neither needs food nor produces waste. Harry immediately recognizes Aya’s claim that she must feed the cat as an excuse 35 45.
• Aya refuses to accept that Xiaohua could be mistaken after the cat catches a merperson as though it were a fish 14.
• Draco agrees to duel Aya only after she promises not to use Xiaohua 45.